{"product_id":"9781776563821","title":"Bug Week: \u0026 Other Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eWry observations meet scalpel-sharp prose in these darkly funny New Zealand stories.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eA science educator in domestic chaos fetishizes Scandinavian furniture. White-collar deadbeats attend a swinger's party in the era of drunk Muldoon. A pervasive smell seeps through the walls of a German housing block. A seabird performs at an open-mic night.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBug Week\u003c\/i\u003e is a scalpel-clean examination of male entitlement, a dissection of death, an agar plate of mundanity. From 1960s Wellington to post-Communist Germany, Airini Beautrais traverses the weird, the wry, and the grotesque in a story collection of human taxonomy. For readers of contemporary literary fiction and New Zealand short stories.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Victoria University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46574603862257,"sku":"9781776563821","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9781776563821_p0.jpg?v=1765536662","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781776563821","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}